Symptoms and weight loss in patients with gastrointestinal and lung cancer at presentation.

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Published in Support Care Cancer on June 20, 2006

Authors

U Khalid1, A Spiro, C Baldwin, B Sharma, C McGough, A R Norman, T Eisen, M E R O'Brien, D Cunningham, H J N Andreyev

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1: Division of Medicine, Imperial College London, Fulham Road, London, SW10 9NH, UK.

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